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I have, &c.,
M. FOSTER,
Secretary, Royal Society.
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SIR,
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No. 69.
GOLD COAST.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL
MEDICINE.
Downing Street, December 13, 1901.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th of November,* and to request you to inform the Committee of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine that the Governor of the Gold Coast has been asked that all possible facilities may be given to the scientific expedition which sailed for that Colony under Dr. Balfour Stewart on the 30th of last month.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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carried out during the hot season, July to October; and Dr. Christophers has requested that he should be directed to make the attempt in the ensuing summer, the authori- ties having promised all necessary facilities and assistance.
The Committee are strongly of opinion that the experiment should be made. If successful, and Dr. Christophers is very confident of success, it will be a practical lesson of the greatest value.
So far as can be ascertained, the extra cost of retaining Dr. Christophers in India until September or October next will be about £350. If His Majesty's Government is prepared to supply about half of this, the Committee will urge the Royal Society to furnish the rest. And I am directed to express the hope of the Committee that you may see your way to assent to this. The experiment in question is, as I have said, in itself a most important one; and the additional six months' stay in India will also enable Dr. Christophers to complete the other enquiries in which he and Dr. Stephens have been engaged, and which it would be very undesirable to leave in an incomplete condition.
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GOLD COAST.
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SIR,
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to GOVERNOR MAJOR NATHAN.
(No. 718.)
Downing Street, December 13, 1901.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you, for your information, the enclosed copy of correspondence† with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and to request that all possible facilities may be given by the Gold Coast Government to the scientific expedition which has been sent out under Dr. Balfour Stewart for further work in con- nection with the investigation and prevention of malaria.
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I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
THE MALARIA INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
SIR,
(Received March 13, 1902.)
[Answered by No. 74.]
The Royal Society, Burlington House, W., March 10, 1902.
On behalf of the Malaria Committee I beg leave to report as follows:- The two observers, Dr. Stephens and Dr. Christophers, sent to India last winter, have continued to carry out important investigations, the results of which have been or are being published. One of them, Dr. Stephens, has unfortunately been obliged through ill health to return to England; the other, Dr. Christophers, is remaining in India.
The funds at the disposal of the Committee, after taking into account the return fares of the observers, will be exhausted in April next.
The Committee, after carefully considering the matter, have come to the con- clusion that it is most desirable for the services of Dr. Christophers to be retained, if possible, for another six months. They are influenced especially by the following consideration:--
The observers have begun, and have sent in a preliminary report, on an attempt to reduce or prevent malaria at the cantonment of Mian Mir, by a systematic inter- ference with the breeding of the particular mosquito (anopheles) which is the agent of malaria in that place. The attempt, to be complete and decisive, can only be
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SIR,
No. 72.
SIERRA LEONE.
GOVERNOR SIR C. A. KING-HARMAN to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(No. 62.)
(Received March 18, 1902.)
[Answered by No. 75.]
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Government House, Frectown, Sierra Leone, March 5, 1902.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 379, of the 7th December, 1901,* covering correspondence from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine on the subject of the work being done here by the Malaria Ex- pedition.
2. The Committee of the School suggest that further assistance should be given by the Sierra Leone Government to Dr. Logan Taylor, who is in charge of the work, by increasing the number of workmen already placed at his disposal.
3.
I am, naturally, anxious to give every possible assistance to Dr. Taylor in the useful and important operations which he is conducting in Freetown; but, after consultation with him and with the Principal Medical Officer, I have decided that the best form in which that assistance can be given is for the Government to undertake by degrees the surface drainage of those parts of the city which are most infested by mosquitos. In this proposition Dr. Taylor cordially concurs, recognizing, as he does, that such work is being at present inadequately performed by his staff, and that the result cannot fail, not only to relieve him of engineering responsibility, but also to effect a permanent improvement in the sanitary condition of the infested areas.
4. I have accordingly arranged for the immediate surface drainage of a swampy portion of the Grassfields district, in which Dr. Taylor has already operated to a considerable extent. The cost of the work is estimated at £460, and that amount has been readily voted by the Legislative Council.
5. I trust that this contribution by the Colony towards the work of the Malaria Expedition will meet with your approval, and that you will sanction the vote which has been made.
I have, &c.,
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C. A. KING-HARMAN,
Governor.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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